Singer/songwriter and Bluegrass artist Mason Via has released new single and video for “Melt in the Sun“. Originally influenced by Via’s attendance at The War on Drugs’ sunset performance at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the former Old Crow Medicine Show band member sat down to write “some sort of psychedelic indie rock song.” But what came out were lyrics influenced by poets like Robert Burns and Appalachian Folk songwriters like Ola Belle Reed.
It ended up being Via’s favorite song from his upcoming self-titled album, out April 25th, 2025 on Mountain Fever Records.
Via says:
Charlie Chamberlain, my cosmonaut collaborator and fellow intergalactic tightrope walker co-wrote this epic song with me, and we even started a local jam band in Nashville based around it. The track features a dangerously powerful mandolin solo from producer Aaron Ramsey who laid the hammer to it and had great musical interplay with dobro & bass player Jeff Partin.
The song’s title and psychedelic vibe inspired Via to reach out to claymation specialist Chloe Tyler to animate a music video.
What Via wanted from the video was…
…to create and transport us into a magical world that chronicles a time traveling alien space cowboy searching to bring back his lost love and find her within the abyss of mirrors and forsaken desert wasteland.
Catch Mason Via On Tour:
March 25 – Brooklyn NY – Skinny Dennis#
March 26 – Cambridge MA – Club Passim#
March 28 – Indianapolis, IN – LO-FI Lounge#
April 10 – Ann Arbor, MI – The Ark^
April 11 – Peninsula, OH – GAR Hall
April 12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall^
April 13 – Mineral Point, WI – The Mineral Opera House^
April 15 – Columbus, OH – Rumba Cafe
April 17 – Charleston, SC – Charleston Pour House^
April 18 – High Point, NC – COHAB SPACE^
April 22 – Chattanooga, TN – The Barrelhouse Ballroom^
April 23 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall^
April 24 – Bloomington, IN – Bluebird^
April 25 – Atlanta, GA – Steve’s Back Deck*
April 26 – Gainesville, Fl – Heartwood Soundstage (Album Release Show)
May 1 – Atlanta, GA – Red Light Cafe
May 7 – Birmingham, AL – Avondale Brewing Company
May 9 – Nashville, TN – The Basement
May 16 – Galax, VA – Rex Theater
May 17 – Fayetteville, WV – Mitchapalooza
May 30 – Panama City Beach, FL – Gulf Coast Jam
June 6 – Wake Forest, NC – Wake Forest Listening Room
July 19 – Nashville, IN – Hard Truth Hills Distillery
^supporting Sierra Hull
#supporting Logan Ledger
*with Surrender Hill
